Fireplace



E. W. FOGERTY ET-AL FIREPLACE Jan. 4, 1938.

Filed Oct. 17, 1956 l/y. 4. y

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INVENTORS E W. FOGERTY C. G. FOGERTY C W. FOG ERTY Q7 dan ATTOR EY Patented Jan. 4, 1938 UNITED STATES PAT oFFicE FIREPLACE Esther Worth Fogerty, Clinton Gordon Fogerty, and Clifford Worth Fogerty, Hialeah, Fla.

Application October 17, 1936Serial No. 106,170

t?.VV Claims.

An object of the invention is to provide a fireplace construction in which the parts are so shaped and arranged that the heat produced b-y the fuel is effectively reected and radiated into the Vroom to be heated.

A further object is to provide a fireplace made of a very few component parts and wherein these and be kept from getting out into the room. This rear portion at the same time is highly heated by the ascending gases and flame and thereupon reflects and radiates the heat into the room.

A still further object is to provide a fireplace which may be made and assembled with a mini mum amount of labor and cost. Still other ob' jects will become apparent to those skilled in the art as the description thereof proceeds. For a better understanding ofthe invention, however, reference is made to the accompanying drawing, in which;

Fig. l is an end view of a fireplace structure embodying the invention,

Fig. 2 is a front View of the fireplace of Fig. l,

Fig. 3 is a partial section through the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 looking' in the direction of the arrow,

Fig. 4 is a top view of the hearth or base plate,

Fig. 5 is a top View of the hood and,

Fig. 6 is a top view of a preferred form of damper.

Referring to Figs. l, 2 and 4, the fireplace comprises a flat base plate or hearth piece 3 on which the re is built, this having a groove 4 extending along two sides and across the back. In this groove is fitted or seated the two cheek or side members I and a curved rear or heat defleoting member 2 which is concave towards the front as shown. The upper edges of the side pieces I are formed with rabbets 5 which project into grooves 5 formed in the rear member 2 whereby the rear member ties the two side members together. As shown in Fig. 3 a reproof cement I 9 may be applied to the joints to iirmly bind the several members in place. A notch or recess 20 is formed near the top of the members l and a front support or tie member 9 placed in these notches extends between members I and ties them together to further support them. In the opening formed between membersl 2 and 9 is placed the damper or draft regulator 6 whose journal pins 3 are seated in notches 'l formed in the side pieces Il. A chain I6 is attached to the damper near one edge and v a hook V2l near its end may be looped over a pin Il seated in the side piece I to' retain the damper in open position.

Surmounting the above mentioned parts is a hood I I which is hollow and has upwardly sloping side portions i3 and l5 and front portion I4 terminating in a top iiat area or portion I2 in which is the hole or opening I9 through which the burned gases and products of combustion vpass l to the usual chimney, the latter not being shown and forming no part of our invention. For the purpose or" removing the ashes formed, a hole 22 is formed through the base near its center and through which the ashes may be passed. A removable door or cap IB is fitted to cover this opening when not in use.

We prefer to form the several parts of the fireplace of soft clay or other known ceramic materials in separate molds, one mold being specially shaped for each piece.r After removal from the molds, the parts are heated or burned in kilns or heating ovens until hard like brick or terracotta. If desired, and as shown in Fig. 6, ironv or steel reinforcing rods I8 may be inserted while the clay is still soft and remain in the damper during the burning process, to further strengthen it. Similar reinforcing may be incorporated in any of the other molded parts, as desired. It will be understood that cement may be used at any or all of the joints to secure the several parts firmly in place.

It will thus be seen that each of the several parts of the fireplace maybe molded to its proper size and shape and prepared at a factory so that the workman at the site has merely to assemble the several parts together at the site of installation.V The surfaces of the parts may be left plain or they may be marked off to resemble bricks, the front surface of the rear member 2 and the upper surface or" base member 3 which lies between the side members being shown so marked off in Figs. 2 and l. When installing in the vicinity of wooden apartitions or walls, the outer surfaces may be faced with cement, brick ork similar material to further decrease the re hazard. While we have shown the hood formed in a single piece, it may be formed in two similar pieces center,

to the particular organization shown and described, -but that many modifications may be employed without departing from the scope of our invention as set forth in the appended claims. What We claim as novel and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A fireplace comprising the combination of Va flat base, oppositely disposed parallel side pieces mounted on said base, Vthe 'upper edge of each of said side pieces being curved and having a thin, projecting rabbet; a concavely formed rear piece provided with spaced apartf parallel grooves, said projecting rabbets being coated with cement and being seated Vin said" respective grooves; a support spaced from saidrear piece and having its ends secured to the groove formed parallel to three edges thereof,

a concavely curved heat deflecting portion having itsY lower edge seated in the center portion of said groove, vertically disposed side walls having their lower edges seated in the respective side portions of said groove and the rear portion of their upper edges in engagement with the concave surface of said heat deflecting portion and the front portion of their upper edges being fiat and in the same` plane asvthe upper edge of said curved heat^deflecting1portion and a hollow hood having a flat base, upwardly converging side Walls, a Vertical rear Wall and a rearwardly inclined front wall, the distance between said front and rear walls being substantially greater than the length of the at upper edges of the side walls, the lower surfaces of the side walls of said hood being in engagement with the flat upper edges of said rst named side walls and the lower surface of the rear edge of the hood being in engagement with the upper Y edg-e of said heatrdeflecting portion.

ESTHER WORTH FOGERTY. CLINTON GORDON FOGERTY. CLIFFORD WORTH YFOG'ERTY. 

